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Rated PG-13. Our Ratings: V -4;L -7; S/N -6 Running time: 1 hour 52 min. If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life maimed than to have two hands and to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire. Mark 9:43 Do nothing from selfish ambition …
I urge readers to see this film. Click the movie title to read my entire review. 5 out of 5 stars.
How does your movie going stack up? Faith and film writer Edward McNulty lists and reviews his Top 10 movies of 2013. Click on the title to see the entire list.
You can find longer reviews on this website, and all appear in the November Visual Parables, with most of the reviews including a set of reflection/discussion questions. You are welcome to reprint any or all of these capsules in the newsletter of your church or organization—as long as your publication includes the line: (c) 2013 …
The family of Rudolh Höss, Commandant of Auschwitz, ignore the horrific sounds of torture & death transpiring on the other side of the wall, nor are we ever shown the horrors of the other side.
The fictionalized story of how his family & others influenced Steven Spielberg to become a great film director.
Raoul Peck uses an unpublished James Baldwin work as his guide & script, enriched by archival clips & interviews, to expose racism in the US.
Harriett Beecher Stowe’s life is well covered, from birth to the formative years in Cincinnati, through the writing of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, & its impact on the nation.
This is part of a series of books that have been influential in my life, going back to grade and high school and on to the present. It would be nice if these posts started a dialogue–what books influenced you, the reader, and why or how? I was a senior in high school when …
The musical version of classic romantic drama of a poet writing love letters for a man to the woman they both love, but of whom he is not worthy because of his physical ugliness–with a twist, in that Cyrano is a dwarf, rather than possessing a large nose.